Skip Bayless and Shannon Sharpe explain what will be different in Cavs-Celtics Game 2

Game 1 of Celtics-Cavaliers was a blowout, but can Boston do anything in Friday night’s Game 2 to make anyone think the Eastern Conference finals won’t be a sweep? Skip Bayless and Shannon Sharpe offered up their predictions during Friday’s episode of “Undisputed.”

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Skip Bayless

This won't be a blowout

"Here’s what I expect tonight: A much closer game than in Game 1. I’ve been ahead of these curves. … I told you Game 1 was going to be a wipeout, but this will not be a wipeout. This will not be 61-39 at halftime because the Celtics -- on their home floor, before some of the best fans in pro basketball -- got annihilated and got humiliated in Game 1 and will remind themselves that they were the No. 1 overall seed in the East by two games over the Cleveland Cavaliers and they will come out tonight much more ready to fight for their playoff lives. They will display their pride and their toughness that we’ve seen all year long from Isaiah Thomas and Co."

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Skip Bayless

Boston will have to 'muck it up'

"And I agree with J.R. Smith, who sorta warned his teammates, ‘Hey … there’s going to be some dirty play, some cheap shots from Boston because they have some of that in them.' And I think you’re going to see some of that tonight because that’s about all they got against this team. They’re going to go down quote, unquote swinging. Not literally but figuratively. They’re going to muck it up. They’re going to have to hark back to the one win they had in this building against the Cavaliers. Remember that fateful night of March 1? What happened that night? They outshot the Cavs from 3, 13-10, they outrebounded the Cleveland Cavaliers, featuring Tristan Thompson, 47-41. And they even outshot them at the free-throw line, they had 18 makes to only 15 from LeBron’s team. So that’s the formula whereby you do this, and remember Boston is not a very good rebounding team –- they are the fourth-worst rebounding team in the league."

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Skip Bayless

Keep it close and hope LeBron freezes up

"Now, I’ve gotta remind you Kevin Love didn’t play that night, and J.R. Smith didn’t play that night -- just for the record, I got it -- but you have to get LeBron James … forgive me for bringing this back up … but you have to get him in a late-game freeze-up situation where you’re going to make him make a choice. I’m not sure they’re good enough to get him where they got him on March 1. Remember that night? He turned down a 3-point shot and then he turned down a freight train drive shot when Jae Crowder blew past him on the sellout closeout on the 3-point shot and he chose to pass it all the way across the court to the newest Cleveland Cavalier, a guy who just joined the team, playing his first game, Deron Williams, who then took the three, down two, to put them up one with 6 seconds left and naturally, predictably, he missed that shot. So that’s the formula whereby you have to get them to that spot, to hope that LeBron freezes up, makes the wrong choice – you think it’s the right choice, I think it’s the wrong one – but that’s your only hope here."

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Skip Bayless

The Celtics aren't used to this level of opponent

"I think it’ll be much closer, but I don’t think it’ll be close enough. I’m going to go Cleveland 105-99 just because I think LeBron is that much better than Jae Crowder or anybody else who can guard him. … On pride alone it’s not going to be a blowout. I think (the Celtics) were shell-shocked (In Game 1), they got hit by a force because they’d been playing the weak Eastern Conference, including the Washington Wizards, who play no defense, and all of the sudden they got hit between the eyes by a very good defensive team taking it up to its highest level, a level at which we saw Cleveland never play the whole regular season."

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Shannon Sharpe

Cleveland will make its 3-pointers this time

"Well, Skip, I think it’s going to be a very similar result to Wednesday for the very simple fact that I think the Cavaliers will shoot much better from the 3-point line. Now, inside the 3-piont line they were phenomenal, but Kyle Korver had some looks, he’s not going to miss those. LeBron James had some good looks, he’s not going to go 1-for-6. I don’t believe that will happen again."

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Shannon Sharpe

Will the Cavs have a lull like they did last game?

"The question is, will the Cavaliers be engaged for the entire game defensively? Because we saw for two-and-a-half quarters the Celtics really got nothing, and then in the third quarter they had a lapse from about seven minutes on and they let the Celtics score 36 points to get back into the ballgame. I think LeBron understands and he will have talked to his team and said, ‘Look, we can’t have these lulls. This is not the time where we want to regress to where we were after the All-Star game defensively.’ But here’s the problem for the Celtics: If you give a front line of LeBron James, Kevin Love, Tristan Thompson 90 points, you’re not beating them. Skip, I don’t care what formula, I don’t care what answers you have to solve this problem. You give LeBron James, you give Kevin Love and Tristan Thompson 90 points of the 117, you are not beating them."